[sdiy] Starting Point?

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Big second for the great idea of an oral/video history with Bernie Hutchins/Electronotes.
Deserves the highest possible production value!!

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From: Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> On Behalf Of Peter Pearson
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 4:49 PM
To: synth-diy mailing list <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Starting Point?

2nd (10th?) for PAIA here.  I built their theremin in high school and never looked back.

It costs money, but I can highly recommend the tech mentoring course offered by The Analog Lab.  Jeff (the owner) used to be a keyboard tech for Pink Floyd during the glory days and managed their state of the art sound system back in the day (as well as working with Vangelis).  He's been doing synth repairs since Moogs and ARPs were new off the assembly line.  He also helped design the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8.  A few links along those lines:

https://www.theanaloglab.com/training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s

https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/

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As an aside off topic, I would love to see a video interview with Bernie Hutchins (or general documentary with people involved) about the genesis and evolution of Electronotes.  Is anybody on the list able to get him on the horn and open up about that?  The number of people that were involved in designing synthesizers when it was the wild west aren't getting any younger and we've already lost some big ones.  Would be good to preserve that history!!

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com<mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com>> wrote:
I believe PAIA is now the longest running modular DIY company.
That honor used to be for Blacet but I'm still waiting for Synthcube to re-launch his line.
Interesting that they are both known for Frac systems.

Kylee

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca<mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>> wrote:
Artie wrote: "In particular, PAiA has been doing this for, what, 20 years at
least?"

I bought a PAiA Gnome kit when I was 12 years old.  I'm 56 later this month.
PAiA had been around for a good long while by that point as well, I think.

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